§ Mr. Barry FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he can give details of the total value of Scottish timber sold in the last five years; and what was the value of timber products sold to English-based customers.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe total value, delivered at mill, of the timber harvested from Scottish forests during the five years to 31 March 1988 is estimated to be over £300 million at current prices. Some of this will have been delivered to English mills.
It is estimated that over the same period Scottish manufacturers sold timber products worth about £7,000 million at current prices, made from both home-grown and imported timber. It is not known how much of this was sold to English-based customers.
£ million 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1988–89 Board Indicative level Payments Indicative level Payments Indicative level Payments Indicative level Payments (provisional) Argyll and Clyde 0.273 0.004 0.284 0.058 0.295 0.035 0.308 0.085 Ayrshire and Arran 0.227 0.025 0.237 0.047 0.246 0.142 0.257 0.315 Borders 0.154 0.273 0.190 0.097 0.153 0.103 0.149 0.085 Dumfries and Galloway 0.531 0.469 0.354 0.283 0.214 0.112 0.180 0.168 Fife 0.540 0.379 0.331 0.218 0.301 0.410 0.285 0.534 Forth Valley 0.404 0.192 0.473 0.347 0.421 0.251 0.221 0.259 Grampian 0.507 0.271 0.522 0.408 0.621 0.601 0.511 0.652 Greater Glasgow 0.795 0.010 0.832 0.473 0.873 0.431 0.897 1.224 Highland 1.094 0.626 1.341 1.222 0.626 0.517 0.510 0.379 Lanarkshire 0.437 0.126 0.440 0.117 0.424 0.145 0.402 0.120 Lothian 0.533 0.108 0.481 0.539 0.486 0.707 0.509 0.651 Orkney 0.015 0.025 0.015 0.015 0.015 0.011 0.015 0.019 Shetland 0.015 — 0.016 0.016 0.017 0.016 0.017 0.017 Tayside 0.313 0.154 0.396 0.235 0.368 0.114 0.361 0.337 Western Isles 0.176 0.192 0.183 0.150 0.148 0.140 0.103 0.075 TOTAL 6.014 2.854 6.095 4.225 5.208 3.735 4.725 4.920